Myanmar children are fast catching up on the toys of the present age, such as fire-spitting guns, battery-operated cars and TV games. In the more remote villages the toys may not be high tech but still they are no longer the traditional folk toys, which by now have entered the realms of folk art. However, children still do apprec...

The art of Pantain (gold or silver smith) is an enterprise of making items of gold or silver. Silver smith is the art of making drinking bowl, receptacle bowl, prize-cup, shield and belt. Gold smith is the art of making earrings, ring, bracelet, pendent and necklace. Myanmar’s traditional arts and crafts artistic creat...

The art of Panchi (painting) is the one which illustrates living animals and inanimate objects using different colours. The artists paint the figures of human beings, animals, objects, scenery designs and cartoons. Myanmar traditional painting developed with the religion of Buddhism in the Bagan Region. Thus Bagan become a repos...

Because of less bony and easy to eat, river catfish is favor to who don’t want to mess around to fillet with bones. River catfish curry is season with onion leaves and pepper to get special flavor.

Prawn with spicy cooking powder is cooked with fresh tomato paste and curry powder. This dish have wonderful smell with spicy taste and only need short time to cook.

In the weekend, Myanmar people usually make snack for friend gathering, family gathering or even watching TV. Boiled djenkol bean with coconut milk is one of a seasonal food and not frequent snack that usually make and female are more favor to eat this snack.

In Mandalay, Rice noodle salad, “Nanlat Thote” ,is a very popular breakfast food. Three size of noodles are used in this salad; small, medium or big. Now I am using middle size noodle in this article. Gravy which includes oil, chili powder and onion mix with meat is the main ingredient of this salad. Fish ball can use instead of meat.

The hsaing waing (also spelt saing waing) is a traditional Burmese folk musical ensemble, consisting of a number of different gon...

Chin nationals have realised the bountiful wealth of the motherland and felt a deep gratitude towards it since their time of settlement. They have performed the Sawng Vat dance wi...